Using historical facts as a time line reference gives my story some reasonable objectivity and even credibility.

Patch has dedicated his life to the responsibility of upholding the law of the frontier. This includes the time he served as an army scout. Later he moved on to become the sheriff of Rutherford County, Tennessee.

After being assigned as the temporary governor while the territory waited to be readmitted to the United States, he was appointed to the position of director of the United States Marshal Service of the Southwest District.